The Whole Health Index: A Practical, Valid, and Reliable Tool to Measure Whole-Person Health and Manage Population Health

The Whole Health Index, developed by Elevance Health, is intended to serve its members but also to serve as a tool for others. The index combines multiple data sources and measure types, including publicly available and individual-level clinical and social data, claims data, and process and outcome measures designed to establish a valid and reliable measure of whole-person health that is useful not only for measuring and tracking health, but also for guiding actions to improve health both at individual and population levels.